The following Ministers and others who held appointments under the Churchill Govern- ment were defeated:

Mr BRENDAN BRACKEN, First

Lord of the Admiralty.

Sir JAMES GRIGG, Secretary

for War.

Mr HAROLD MACMILLAN, Air

Secretary and formerly Minister in the Mediter-

ranean.

Mr L. S. AMERY, Secretary for

India.

Sir DONALD SOMERVELL,

Home Secretary.

Mr GEOFFREY LLOYD, Minis-

ter for Information.

Sir WALTER WOMERSLEY,

Minister for Pensions.

Mr RICHARD LAW, Minister

for Education.

Mr WILLIAM MABANE, Minis-

ter of State.

Mr ERNEST BROWN, Minister

for Aircraft Production.

Mr G. S. SUMMERS, a Parlia-

mentary Under-Secretary.

Sir RONALD CROSS, High

Commissioner to Australia.

KING RECEIVES RESULTS

The King received, the election results from time to time as they came in over the tape machine at Buckingham Palace. Sir Richard Acland, leader of the Common Wealth party, lost his seat, the Putney divi- sion of Wandsworth. Sir Percy Harris, deputy leader of the Liberal party, was also de- feated.

Mr Michael Foot, Labour, who was a special correspondent of The Argus at the San Francisco conference, defeated Mr Hore Belisha (Nat), who was Secre- tary for War early in the war, in Plymouth, Devonport divi-

sion.

Mr Dingle Foot (Lib), who was Parliamentary Secretary for Economic Warfare in the Coalition Government, lost his seat in Dundee.

Mr Brendan Bracken's old seat, north division of Pad- dington, was won by Lieut General Sir Mason Macfarlane (Lab), former Governor of Gibraltar.

COMMUNIST WINS

In Stepney, Mile End Division, the Labour candidate, Mr D. Frankel, was defeated by Mr P. Piratin, a Communist.

The Australian Air Vice-Mar- shal D. C. J. Bennett, who stood as a Liberal, failed to win Mid- dlesbrough, West Division.